THE PONS NUMBER · last 24 hoursmeasured at 05:17 UTC, 25 September 2026
The Pons Number
93.5% of pons launches never take a single buy.
187 of 200 sampled on 8 September 2026, read from each curve.
0.43% excluding launches that graduated inside 5 minutes: 42 of 9,834. Measured 25 Sep 2026 · 05:17 UTC.
of 9,834 launches in the last 24 hours graduated, excluding launches that graduated inside 5 minutes · 42 graduations · updated at 05:17 UTC, 25 September 2026
0.74%: 73 of 9,834 Pons launches in the last 24 hours graduated.
counting every graduation · 73 of 9,834
42.5% of graduations were done within 5 minutes, and 24.7% within 60 seconds. (n = 73 graduations · 24 h)
How this is counted
The age of a figure is the time since crawledAt in number.json; the stale flag there only says whether the run that wrote the file knew it was behind. The card image carries the age it had when it was drawn.